 It is not told by a conventional narrator, but by something that calls itself ‘Death’ and collects the souls of the dead (it’s not that creepy, trust me)  It is not told by from the English point of view in World War 2, but the German

 A girl named Leisel Meminger and her brother are taken from their mother, but her brother dies on the train  They bury him in a small German town, in the snow  It is then that Leisel Meminger steals her first book

 Leisel goes to live in a small German town called Molching, and to live with a family there called the Hubermann’s  Hans, The father, plays the accordion (it may seem irrelevant, but it matters, trust me)  Hitler is at the height of his rule

 It may seem like a long book, but trust me, everything is connected.

 Leisel Meminger  Hans Hubermann  Rudy (if you read it, you will find out who he is!)  Max (Ditto)

 Markus Zusak is an Australian author. He had always heard so many stories from his German mother about the bombings of Munich and about Jews being marched through her small German town.

It felt as though the whole globe was dressed in snow. Like it had pulled it on, the way you pull on a sweater. Next to the train line, footprints were sunken to their shins. Trees wore blankets of ice. As you might expect, someone had died. They couldn't just leave him on the ground. For now, it wasn't such a problem, but very soon, the track ahead would be cleared and the train would need to move on. There were two guards. There was one mother and her daughter. One corpse. The mother, the girl, and the corpse remained stubborn and silent. "Well, what else do you want me to do?" The guards were tall and short. The tall one always spoke first, though he was not in charge. He looked at the smaller, rounder one. The one with the juicy red face. "Well," was the response, "we can't just leave them like this, can we?" The tall one was losing patience. "Why not?" And the smaller one damn near exploded. He looked up at the tall one's chin and cried, "Spinnst du! Are you stupid?!" The abhorrence on his cheeks was growing thicker by the moment. His skin widened. "Come on," he said, traipsing over the snow. "We'll carry all three of them back on if we have to. We'll notify the next stop."